Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism — Like a lot of other people, I've been following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) throughout the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on.

No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry? — Research in Motion (R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it's delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphones that, to this day, outsell even the much-adored iPhone.

RIM's BlackBerry Storm and NY Times' Pogue don't mix — RIM's first touchscreen BlackBerry is proving to be one heck of a media-darling, the likes of which the iPhone would be proud. Some shower the BlackBerry Storm with praise, while others belittle the BlackBerry's SurePress click-able touchscreen.

First impressions: Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display — As we noted yesterday, Apple's new 24-inch Cinema Display has shipped, and arrived this afternoon. While we have only had about an hour to test it out so far, we're quite pleased. It should be noted that this new display …

Nokia to cease sales in Japan — TOKYO (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said on Thursday it will stop selling mobile phones in Japan except for its luxury Vertu brand after struggling to expand its presence. — Finnish Nokia has previously said it will cut costs ‘decisively’ …

Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming — Criminals regain control after security firm stops preemptively registering routing domains — Computerworld) A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said today, and is again under the control of criminals.

Google Is No Longer Silicon Valley's Legal Defender — When Google settled the lawsuit over its book scanning project, we noted with disappointment how this appeared to signal the end of Google's earlier position of fighting certain legal battles on principle.

Barack Obama's Change.gov Adds OpenID — OpenID has had a lot of big supporters, but this week President Elect Barack Obama's Change.gov added the ability for users to log in using an OpenID account and to post comments to sections of the website using OpenID.

iPhone OS 2.2 Problems Run Rampant — Users, in droves, continue to report a bevy of issues after the update to iPhone OS 2.2. Among the most serious and widespread problems: disappearing applications (both Apple's and third-party), loss of WiFi connectivity, loss of 3G or EDGE signal strength and an inability to sync with iTunes.

iPhone 2.2 SDK offers undocumented TV-out features — The other day, Ars showed you how to dump iPhone frameworks. Today, we can confirm that the updated MediaPlayer framework (it's a public framework) offers a working solution for exporting video out live to a connected TV screen.

Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability — A worm dubbed Win32/Conficker.A is making the rounds on Windows machines, exploiting a security hole that Microsoft released a patch for in October, Microsoft said on Wednesday. — The number of attacks have increased over the past couple of days …

Microsoft shuts down LeBron James — In a move that might be a lesson for my beloved (and, just occasionally, beloathed) Golden State Warriors this Friday, Microsoft has shut down LeBron James. — Two years ago, MSN and the Cleveland Cavalier superhero who looks 35 and is, allegedly, 13 or 14, announced big plans.